I kind of feel the need to check in, even though I haven't anything specific to say right now. It's been a few days since I've had the chance to write anything at all lengthy.
This is the first few weeks of school: I am busy, crazy, dizzy, and yet I am still feeling positive and motivated. The newly-sharpened-pencil scent hasn't dissipated from the schoolroom yet, if you know what I mean. And so I don't have extra time — PLUS I don't have that desperate need-to-get-away-and-think-my-own-thoughts procrastination that ordinarily drives me to blog at least a little even when I don't have extra time. And I am also not trying out many new recipes, having fallen back on old standards for these weeks while we are still hammering out our schedules.
Already figured out: Mondays (with late afternoon swim lessons) will be beans-and-rice-in-the-rice-cooker night. Tuesdays (getting back late from co-schooling) will be leftovers night.
In other news, the baby appears to be teething, poor thing. He wouldn't stop crying this morning (until he finally dropped off to sleep, fitfully, in the sling — that's where he is now); and this made school kind of hard for the others. My 6yo dutifully read his book aloud to me, but it was hard to hear him over the wailing. My 10yo tried singing to himself to drown the baby out, which of course made it even louder in here. My 4yo was agitated and couldn't hear her (educational, I swear) movie. Lunch couldn't come soon enough.
From the kitchen: "Can I have some baking soda, mom?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because I don't know what you want to do with it."
"I want to put it on some paper."
I know what this means. Scientisting. "No."
"I'll do it outside."
"It's thunderstorming outside."
"Can I have some orange juice?"
"Are you going to put baking soda in it?"
"No."
"Okay then."
You see? I'm no fun. Guess I'll use the rest of break time, um, making a grocery list.
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